The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1887-04-15
pOWDERLY REJOlCES
Because the Anarchist Candidates for Chicago
City Ofices Were Laid Out Cold.

AT !. meeting OF knights OF Labor repre-
senting every district in Pennsylvania, held
at Harrisburg, to consider the bills per-
tanning to labor now pending In tho lcgisla-
ture, the general master workman cXprcss-
ed himself well pleased with the result
OF the Chicago election. A public meeting
was held in the house OF representatives.
Mr.. Powderly presided and ma,;e speech,
in which he asserted:
Labor had n right to be represented here
by men to look afterits interests in the leg
islature. He referred to the raonopolistic
corpc rations being represented in legisla-
tive halls, and said it was time tho
labor men OF Pennsylvania emu
lated the example OF their brethren in New
Jersey and insist upon the examination OF
all labor bills before they were passed.
I'VE are charged with being anarchists and
favoring measures that tcnd to anarchy.
AS chief of our organization ] can say that
anarchy finds no abiding place in our
midst; but monopolsts want to make
people believe the contrary. No matter
what errors we have committed In the past,
we have always aimed at doing right. We
have pursued II line OF policy nnd found out
things that nrc right and wrong but we have
always kept clear OF the one thing that brings
odium on our country He re-
joiced therefore, is the defeat OF the anar-
chist candidates in Chicago. ! was glad to
SEQ that the Gorkinemen OF that city were
good enough to throw the lie back into the
faces to those who posed rs their friends
and representatives. No sooner did the
anarchist ticket go before the people than
itssupporters said, 'Wewill carry the ticket
under the flag on whose face not one star
glistens not one stripe is to be found, and
| the teaching OF such men as Powdcrly and
| GriHiths will have no weight with us But
they found election day that anarchy was
showed under rs it was never showed un-
der before and | say amen to that every
time.
| A BURST OF PATRIOTISM.
did not know but what in the decora-
ton OF this hall you might forget to
| place the American flag on the walls
| Thursday, that it might be for,
gotten brought this with mo this morn
ing, there Mr.. Powdery exhibited flag
amid tremendous applause], and
brought it here so that II it were charged
| that we were not Americans, we could show
| that we were. don't care whore | was
born; don't care where the rest OF you
were born; but we swear by that flag and
no other. Let them tomorrow morn
ing after these out tbursts OF mp
plausc charge us with being any.
thing but free born American citizens, anc
these manifestations which you have giver
expression to will be the reiutation OF that
Z.
condemnation OF the red flag. Now broth
ers, we are hero and wo will stand or fnl
by the sentiments Ihuve given uttcrancr to
We are here as Americans to watcl
American legislation in the interests o
the American people and in our Amer
lean way, and also to say that thcs
men who assembled hundred year
ago inPhilndelphia and gave out the Dec
larntion OF Independence to the eworld wer
right when they declared that all men wer
created free and equal and endowed witt
certain iuaiennble rights, and that W
believe they told the truth and that j
still continues to be the truth instead OF
living lie, as some OF these mon Toul
have people believe. We can do this with
out being anarchists, without bein
partisans and without being tied t
the charcoal wheels OF either the old demo
!; era tic or republican party. 1t was now a
impossbility for mechanic to earn enoug
by his own labor to support bis family. III
had to call in the help OF his wife and chi
. drcn He wanted the barriers between
life OF shame and Il life OF virtuousindustr
greater than fifty cents n day. The chi
| ,lren should be taken off the coal breake
t and kept at school. The public could no
$ exist on a red flag foundation ofignoranc'
} vice and crime.
Industrial schools should be estabiish.
0 and hands and brains educated Mt tt
: same time, The legislature n few yeai
ago would not have paid the slightest q
S tention to u labor organization, but no
) the Knights OF labor could defeat any cal
= ddate and 80 n word to the wise In this lcsi
lation would be sufficient. The boycott wt
4 wrong for the man that was boycotte'
a and 50 was the blacklisting wrong for II
/ man that made the blacklist. He did M
v ! believe in either system. He believed
arbitration, and he would make arbitr;
tion compulsory.